Sports Report

HOUSE SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Last Friday, the annual Mount Lilydale Swimming Carnival was held down at Lilydale Outdoor Pool. We would like to thank the students for their excellent participation (especially our Year 7 students who had the most swimmers in the pool throughout the day!), enthusiasm and positivity displayed throughout the entirety of the day. In addition, we would like to thank our sporting and house prefects for their support and commitment towards the day running smoothly - they were definitely the stars of the day! Congratulations to the swimmers who have advanced to the EISM swimming carnival and will be competing on the 13th of March. The winners for 2018 are Frayne!!!

• 1st Frayne 821
• 2nd Maguire 772
• 3rd Terry Dunn 736
• 4th Carr 717
• 5th O’Neill 591
• 6th Ryan 495

MLMC SWIMMING TRAINING
When: Monday afternoons (3.30-4.45pm) and Wednesday mornings (7.00-8.00am)
Where: Kilsyth Pool
Why: To improve your swimming and fitness levels - ALL abilities welcome. Commendations and house points up for grabs!
Cost: FREE

• Students will be bussed from school to pool on Mondays and back to school from pool on Wednesdays
• Breakfast provided on Wednesdays
• Please see/email Miss Webb in the Doyle Centre for more details

EISM SWIMMING CARNIVAL
When: Tuesday 13th March (all day)
Where: The swim team has been posted on the Doyle Centre window, please check for details
Details to come via email

EISM WEEKLY SPORT REMINDERS
With the Summer seasons of Year 8, 9 and Senior EISM Sport all now underway, please remember the following:

• Check the Sport plans - up on the Doyle Centre window at the beginning of every week
• If you are unable to play in your team in a particular week, you need to let your coach know as early as possible
• Please be on time to the Doyle Centre on your sport day - all EISM Teams need to leave at the start of lunch to get to venues to play
• That your uniform needs to be 100% correct to ensure no forfeited games - hockey, soccer and football must wear long navy socks (available at the Doyle Centre for $10) & mouthguards must be worn for hockey
• NO CORRECT UNIFORM, NO GAME

Please be aware that there may be late returns from EISM away games, check the sport plan on the Doyle Centre window to make sure you know when they will be!

FIXTURES
Live fixtures for EISM matches can be found online at eism.org (Click on “Weekly sport”, then “Junior” for Year 8 and “Senior/Intermediate” for Year 9 and Senior fixtures. Change the sport in the drop down box and click “Go”.

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Futsal
Congratulations to the following Year 10 students who have been competing in the Futsal Oz Division 5 Championship and won the title last Wednesday night! Charlie Schneider, Harrison Van Duuren, Gus Wiffre, Liam Pritchard, Nathan Zmegac, Ben Easterbrook, Kurt Huttig, Joel Starnawski (all Year 10). Thank you to Marco Cardinali for his time and enthusiasm coaching this team throughout the year!

Swimming
Congratulations to Keilani Trewavis (Year 11) who is currently competing at the Open age Australian Swimming Championships/Commonwealth Games Trials on the Gold Coast. To even qualify for these trials is an amazing achievement for a 16 year old. Best wishes Keilani, you have all of our support behind you!

Athletics
Congratulations to Harry van Duuren (Year 10) and Pat Keating (Year 11) who were both members of the Under 18 Yarra Ranges Athletics Club team who won the Athletics Victoria Shield final last weekend.

Warburton Up and Running
Well done to Josh Meerkotter (Year 10) for competing in the Warburton Up and Running 10km event. He completed the course in 45.33 minutes and won his age category. Well done, Josh!

Triathlon
Congratulations to Maddy George (Year 10) for competing in the Kondak Triathlon at Barwon Heads last weekend - 400m swim, 14km cycle and 4km run. Well done Maddy - good luck for the next one this weekend!

Umpiring
Well done to Sam Green (Year 9) who has been selected to umpire the AFL Little League this season. Looking forward to seeing you on the MCG or Etihad soon!

Football
Congratulations to Emerson Woods (Year 12) who has been selected into Eastern Ranges Leadership group. This comes after a terrific 2017 from Emerson who participated in the Under 18 National Carnival for Vic Metro, State of Origin for Victoria against the Allies (Queensland, Tasmania, Western australia, Northern Territory, New South Wales), being named in the TAC Cup Girls Team of the Year and being selected into level 2 of the AIS academy. Emerson looms as a potential draft pick in this year’s AFL Women’s Draft.

If you have any other student achievements, please email them to dwebb@mlmc.vic.edu.au

YEAR 8 RESULTS - 20 February

SENIOR SPORTS RESULTS - 21 February

YEAR 9 SPORTS RESULTS - 22 February

YEAR 8 RESULTS - 27 February

SENIOR RESULTS - 28 February

YEAR 9 SPORTS RESULTS - 1 March